📚 Agora node [[2003 05 12 powerline networking]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File _posts/archive/2003-05-12-powerline-networking.md by @bmann ☆ 📎

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Home Server

K all you ex-Nortel elites; my friend Jeff wants to get some deep knowledge on Powerline Networking. Is it good? Is it bad? etc, etc, etc.

Feel free to dump links and rants here now. E/.

📚 Agora node [[2004 02 05 globe and mail monster com to add networking]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File _posts/archive/2004-02-05-globe-and-mail-monster-com-to-add-networking.md by @bmann ☆ 📎

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Social Media

Dave pointed out this story about Monster.com’s plans to add social networking to its website:

While users can search for contacts by profession, location and school, they will have to pay to view contact information. For the test period, Monster is charging a $24.99 (U.S.) one-time fee and a monthly charge of $2.99 for users to get in touch with each other.

Globe and Mail: Monster.com to add networking

I don’t think much of their proposed integration, although I suppose the message is that social networking is making money (or at least the compant that is adding the functionality, is). Read on…

This almost exactly follows the Classmates.com model — where you can search for free but pay to get contact details. I think that there has to be higher value in a relationship to pay for it. Or maybe that you shouldn’t have to pay for a relationship?

Regardless, I understand the sentiment. If people are demanding social networking features, somebody has to pay. If people do pay, then it definitely has value. Or someone has to pay.

We’ve got a couple of different ideas to make money from Zerendipity. Rather than trying to sell the network itself (after all, it’s really “owned” by the users who enter the content), we’re going to focus on enabling new functionality using social networking. Right now, I think that people are confusing social networking sites as the end goal — helping people by giving them software that works more like they already do.

📚 Agora node [[2005 10 24 distributed social networking]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File _posts/archive/2005-10-24-distributed-social-networking.md by @bmann ☆ 📎

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p2p
ton zylstra
jabber
FOAF
XFN
vCard
Canter’s Law
barcamp amsterdam
social networking
Social Media

I didn’t get nearly as much time (hardly any!) to talk to Ton Zylstra at BarCamp Amsterdam as I would have liked to. He’s continuing the conversation on his blog, with this post about P2P social networking:

I would like to have a true peer to peer social networking platform. Also I’d like to have my own spiders and agents.

FOAF isn’t ready for this kind of thing I think, but we might look to an existing p2p infrastructure like Skype to be a carrier. Boris Mann pretty much repeatedly said Jabber can do anything during BarCamp, and seemed to be only half joking. Ton’s Interdependent Thoughts: How to Get P2P Social Networking

You’re right, Ton, I was only half joking. I think real time is very important. If the "IM Wars" have shown us anything, it’s that we need to have common standards and formats. For XML message passing, including IM, Jabber is the answer to this (and might be the answer for voice and video as well, but I’ve got more to write about this later).

But whatever the pieces of the infrastructure are, we still need to be able to pass rich user profiles back and forth. We’ve got an RDF-based one in FOAF, we’ve got a microformat one in XFN, and we’ve got a desktop app-compatible one in vCard. What’s missing? An extensible XML-based format for user profiles that is standardized and widely deployed. Actually, Jabber uses an XML version, with an interesting historical note. The W3C has an RDF spec of vCard, but I still think an XML one is going to be required. I think this will become clear along with advances in the identity infrastructure. In the meantime, we’ll need to follow Canter’s Law #1, and support all formats.

📚 Agora node [[2006 12 17 mybloglog is distributed social networking]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File _posts/archive/2006-12-17-mybloglog-is-distributed-social-networking.md by @bmann ☆ 📎

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Social Media
Technorati
OpenID
MyBlogLog
identity
distributed social networking

MyBlogLog is the closest to distributed social networking I've seen. There is no "claiming" of blogs, which is a bit of an issue…they'll need to add something like that soon.

They also don't have identity figured in, plus the most ridiculously long profile information pages which just underscores for me that I really never want to fill out another one of those, and I don't want to have to set privacy…I want that stuff to just work.

This might be an interesting purchase for Technorati (which just added OpenID support…).

Update: and apparently I should link to my "community".

📚 Agora node [[2009 08 22 federated micro blogging for canadian startup networking]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File _posts/archive/2009-08-22-federated-micro-blogging-for-canadian-startup-networking.md by @bmann ☆ 📎

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Laconi.ca
Identi.ca
startups
microblogging
Twitter
Crowdvine
Status.net
federation
Canada
Vancouver
Social Media

Some of you may have heard that Twitter was down the week before last. This kicked out all sorts of thinking and discussion that, perhaps, one company shouldn’t be a single point of failure.

The other item that has been coming up again and again is a request that the Bootup Entrepreneurial Society run a "social network" of some kind. People really enjoy Launch Party and other events, and have found them a great place to network.

More specifically, running Co-Founder Speed Dating, we set up Crowdvine as a mini social network. What we found is that it was heavily used - lots of people used it to check out the backgrounds of other people and it continued to be used after the fact. People who couldn’t make it to the event checked in and contacted people, some of which actually resulted in companies being founded.

Back to Twitter. Or, more specifically, Laconi.ca, an open source "clone" of Twitter. The company behind it is launching Status.net - basically, a fully hosted *version* similar to (and interoperable with) Twitter. It also supports a few extras that Twitter doesn’t — like tagging of user profiles (great to do stuff like #cofounder_wanted or #mentor to show lists of users) and groups (great for setting up more "channelized" communications or question / answer about specific topics — e.g. a "Legal" group).

So, the concept is to run this at something like yvr.bootup.ca, parlez.montrealstartup.com, somecooltorontodomain.com, talk.calgarytechnologies.com, etc. etc. - one in any region that wants to take responsibility to run such a thing.

Each site would serve as a mini social network / hub — listing profiles of entrepreneurs, mentors, service providers, and anyone else from the regional technology areas that wants to participate.

I’m most definitely not ready to just go ahead with this. Running infrastructure like this is something that has to stay up. Picking a domain is important — the "namespace" is what defines the community, in part. And, if we go with Laconi.ca as a base, it’s actually less interesting if we just stand up one instance - we need at least one other network to commit to setting up and federating with us.

So, those of you have said that Vancouver / Bootup should set up "yet another social network", what do you think? Is this type of federated microblogging a good choice? Go kick the tires on Identi.ca - set up an account, fill out your profile, tag yourself, and start searching for other people.

Other suggestions for tools or requirements for such a system? I’m still not convinced we need something, but I do feel that we need to connect more, to tell the stories that are happening all over Vancouver, and all over Canada.

📚 Agora node [[anti authoritarian networking]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File anti-authoritarian-networking.md by @neil ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

Anti-authoritarian networking§

from [[Information Civics]]

Ways in which you can design a network system to reduce imbalances of authority.

This makes the design of the network a civic practice as much as it is technical. The developers must consider the political ramifications of their designs.

– [[Information Civics]]

[[Anti-authoritarianism]].

📚 Agora node [[completion at point of roam links not working]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File completion-at-point-of-roam-links-not-working.md by @neil ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

completion at point of roam links not working§

After updating spacemacs and packages from Melpa, completion at point for org-roam titles just stopped working.

See: [[Using fuzzy links AKA wikilinks in org-roam]] for info on how I originally set it up.

It’s using key-chord-mode.

I guess first check is that still working.

key-chord part is working. But completion is not.

Directly running M-x completion-at-point doesn’t work either.

I have company-backends including company-capf, so what’s the issue?

If I add in company-dabbrev, for example, then completion at point is working fine. So something with capf is not working with org-roam.

If I do org-roam-node-insert or org-roam-node-find, the completion list comes up OK. So org-roam seems to be aware of the list of nodes seems fine.

Also trying to see when we get anything with org-roam-completion-everywhere… Nope, also not working.

Describing company-backends variable:

Its value is (company-capf)

Describing company-backends variable:

Its value is (org-roam-complete-link-at-point org-roam-complete-everywhere)

So it all looks fine in term of config.

If I turn on toggle-debug-on-error, no debug is entered into when running completion at point.

Bit stuck with this now. Will have to come back.

[2023-08-13 Sun] For some reason, adding (org-roam-db-auto-sync-enable) in to my startup file seems to have resolved this. Doesn’t really make sense? But hey ho, it’s working again.

Resources§

How to to get {{Title of the target note}} working with inline autocomplete i…

📚 Agora node [[coworking]] (pulled by the Agora)

📜 File coworking.md by @flancian ☆ 📎 ️🔗 ✍️

coworking§

I sometimes think of myself as a hermit, but in practice I like the company of people. Often I need some downtime, though, which means essentially to read a book or use a computer. I enjoy doing this while other people do the same or something equivalent.
Perhaps [[cobeing]] could be a better term.